Meleager bringing Atalanta the head of the Calydonian boar

Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
ca. 1615
Height:
124.3 cm  (48 15/16 in.)
Width:
101.3 cm  (39 7/8 in.)
In frame: 154 x 131 x 11 cm.
Technique / Medium:
oil on wood

    Item location

  • Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel
    Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister[Museum inv. no.: 88]

Description

Meleager is giving Atalanta a boar's head while an unnamed male mythological character is playing a coiled horn and another undetermined mythological character is hovering in the background.

Iconclass

94N323
Meleager gives the head of the boar to Atalanta

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Hunting horn [4138]

Image URLs

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Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur image
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Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel image and data

Bibliographic references

Leppert, Richard D. The theme of music in Flemish paintings of the seventeenth century (München-Salzburg: Musikverlag Emil Katzbichler, 1977) vol. 2, 114, cat. 500, pl. CXXX.

RIdIM record id

1371